Open Source Delivers

Since 2002, Alcatel-Lucent has operated an intranet to educate employees about FOSS and to foster collaboration and decision-making.  This “best practice” is well worth emulating.  To learn more, I interviewed Alcatel-Lucent’s Michel Ruffin, PhD, who works as Software Coordination Manager in the Bell Labs Corporate CTO Department. Jim Berets:  Where did the idea for Alcatel-Lucent’s [...]

At the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit a couple weeks ago, the Linux Foundation announced their annual “Who Writes Linux?” report. Amanda McPherson of TLF blogged about it on April 3, and her comments about what we can extract from the numbers ring true: the Linux Kernel is receiving more and more attention from companies and [...]

Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners, working with 451 Research, are conducting the sixth annual Future of Open Source Survey.  I took the survey, but one question caused me concern, considering what I do for a living.  Question 11 states, “OSS forges and foundations have played an important role in the past few [...]

Last week, a first-of-its-kind survey of the European automotive industry revealed that open source is even more pervasive in the development cycle than anticipated. Yet, the necessary management and governance of these open source development processes are lacking. The survey, conducted by BearingPoint and scientifically guided by Dr. Dirk Riehle, head of the Open Source [...]

This blog was originally published by SandHill.com It’s exciting to see the evolution of Open Source evident in findings in our Future of Open Source survey over the past five years. Open Source has now moved beyond the tipping point it reached last year in the private sector and now is mainstream in businesses of all [...]

When Olliance first developed the Open Source Maturity model, we originally had seven disciplines that were primarily internally focused.  However, it quickly became apparent that we needed to expand the maturity model and look beyond an organization’s internal software development processes, so we added Supply Chain Management as the eighth discipline. Managing the introduction of [...]

On occasion, people working on open source projects will lament how a lot of organizations are using the output of the open source project but not contributing back.  For instance, at Eclipse, we have millions of users but only tens of thousands of individuals who have opened a bug (a very basic way of contributing [...]

It was another week filled with open source announcements. HP, Hortonworks and Ford all made news with new open source offerings. Here are this week’s highlights: Ravi Mandalia wrote about the UK Cabinet Office Director of ICT Futures’s recent supporting statements about open source software, “Liam Maxwell: “Open Source is the Future Model for Delivering [...]

So, your developers (hopefully using company-provided guidance) have found some FOSS that seems to fit the bill.   But, does it?  You’ll need to ask yourself the following questions: What are your criteria for good FOSS? How does it get downloaded and reviewed? How does my organization evaluate and approve FOSS components before they are included [...]

Click Here to read this blog in Chinese - 点击这里阅读这篇文章在中国 The arrival of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in the U.S. for trade talks is an opportune time to reflect on the rapid changes happening in China’s technology sector, particularly the rise of free and open source software (FOSS) as a key part of the innovation [...]